A method of manufacturing a pack of smoking articles. The method comprises providing a planar blank of an inner support frame comprising a front panel and a rear panel connected by a bottom panel, and folding the front and rear panels together about the bottom panel to form an inner support frame in a receiving configuration. In the receiving configuration, the front and rear panels diverge in a direction away from the bottom panel and define an opening remote from the bottom panel. The method includes inserting a bundle of smoking articles through the opening into the inner support frame and folding the front and rear panels together about the bottom panel from the receiving configuration to an enclosed configuration to enclose the bundle of smoking articles. The method includes wrapping the bundle of smoking articles and inner support frame with a film to form a sealed pack of smoking articles. Also an apparatus for manufacturing a pack of smoking articles according to such a method.

A pack, and a method and apparatus for producing the pack, comprising an outer pack and an inner pack as a sealed block with an inner blank which encloses the pack contents, the inner pack having, in the region of an inner end wall, an opening aid which can be used a number of times and, in the region of side walls of the inner pack, folding flaps which are connected to one another by thermal sealing. Folding flaps in the region of an inner rear wall of the inner blank are configured as a fin fold and are connected to one another by thermal sealing outside the region of the cigarette group to form a fin seam, the fin seam being arranged at a spacing from regions of folding flaps which cover one another multiple times, in the region of the inner side walls.

An apparatus, system, and method which may facilitate the placing of rod-like articles, such as cigarettes, into waiting packaging, including a space into which articles may be inserted, this space described by a base and a plurality of side walls. A sheet of deformable material may then be secured to the apparatus, such as by vacuum force provided via vacuum openings located in the side walls, to further bound the space and provide support for the articles contained therein while the apparatus is transported or reoriented during the packaging method.

A packaging system configured to hold objects therein may include a tray that includes a cavity and a set of lugs on an inner surface of the cavity. A first object may be located within the cavity, where the first object is isolated from simultaneously engaging each lug in the set of lugs. A flexible object may be at least partially located within the cavity. The flexible object may be bent and engaged against the set of lugs, such that the flexible object is held in place at least partially within the cavity by the set of lugs and the first object is held within the cavity by the flexible object.

An apparatus for packaging packets for smoking articles includes a transfer wheel to transfer the packets from a feed device to an outlet device. A gluing device is disposed in a certain angular position between the feed device and the outlet device to selectively glue two lateral flaps of each packet on the corresponding lateral walls thereof. A pressing device is disposed outside the transfer wheel between the gluing device and the outlet device to press the lateral flaps of the packet against corresponding lateral walls thereof.

An apparatus for packaging packets for smoking articles includes a transfer wheel to transfer the packets from a feed device to an outlet device. A gluing device is disposed in a certain angular position between the feed device and the outlet device to selectively glue two lateral flaps of each packet on the corresponding lateral walls thereof. A pressing device is disposed outside the transfer wheel between the gluing device and the outlet device to press the lateral flaps of the packet against corresponding lateral walls thereof.